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jim demint's seat. it says in part, quote, i want to make two things clear from the outset. number one, i will not take the appointment myself. number two, i will appoint a person who has the same philosophy of government jim demint and i share. there you go. just out this morning. maggie, i'll let you take that first. well, that is good news if you are tim scott, i assume. >> i assume. >> she mentioned jim demint in the statement and nikki haley aligning herself with the new ceo of the conservative movement. >> which she has to do. look, nikki haley now has something that we have described as goldman, right, without being a scandal. tim scott's name has been tossed around by conservatives, as we know. i have word from some people the ag as a place holder, where this ends up going is going to be extremely interesting. i think that demint is going to have some say in what ends up happening here. >> and what's intriguing here is there are so many interesting moving parts and you may care about this in a c
jim demint's seat. it says in part, quote, i want to make two things clear from the outset. number one, i will not take the appointment myself. number two, i will appoint a person who has the same philosophy of government jim demint and i share. there you go. just out this morning. maggie, i'll let you take that first. well, that is good news if you are tim scott, i assume. >> i assume. >> she mentioned jim demint in the statement and nikki haley aligning herself with the new ceo of...
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and of course there's south carolina senator jim demint, he's resigning his seat. this week a handful of those senators gave their final speech on the senator floor, here's a list taste. >> when i started here in the senate a blackberry was a fruit. >> i was elected on the slogan in 1986 of yes we can. and somebody else used that slogan a few years later. >> thank you for taking a chance on me, in that first election 24 years ago and renewing my contract three more times. >> by saying that i so appreciate barbara mcculsky and john cornyn introducing the bill to name is homemaker ira for me. it will mean so much to me because i know it will help women long after i leave. >> too often in recent years, members of congress have locked themselves into a slate of inflexible positions. many of which have no hope of being implemented in a divided government. and some of these positions have been further calcified by pledges signed for political purposes. >> i worry we are losing the art of legislating, and when the history of this chapter in the senate is raiwritten, we do
and of course there's south carolina senator jim demint, he's resigning his seat. this week a handful of those senators gave their final speech on the senator floor, here's a list taste. >> when i started here in the senate a blackberry was a fruit. >> i was elected on the slogan in 1986 of yes we can. and somebody else used that slogan a few years later. >> thank you for taking a chance on me, in that first election 24 years ago and renewing my contract three more times....
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>> it's hard for jim demint -- many ways, sort of like this aol/time warner merger. it makes a lot of sense on paper. the question is will he be able to overcome some of the institutional challenges. jim demint going outside of the senate into something that is out in the think tank world. >> we'll have more of this, more from the gaggle coming up, plus the six-year itch. is the bedrock of conventional wisdom or just a made-up thing. second term presidents struggling in his second midterm. we'll let you know whether we think it's real or a coincidence. >>> but first, our special trivia question, who was the first president and the most recent president to officially start a term on a sunday? answer and more is coming up on "the daily rundown." we'll be right back. i moved here from russia and i gained weight because the portions were much larger. and i just felt like i needed to eat it all because it was so yummy. weight watchers online worked for me because it lets me live my life. i can still go out with my friends. i can still enjoy my favorite foods and drinks. i
>> it's hard for jim demint -- many ways, sort of like this aol/time warner merger. it makes a lot of sense on paper. the question is will he be able to overcome some of the institutional challenges. jim demint going outside of the senate into something that is out in the think tank world. >> we'll have more of this, more from the gaggle coming up, plus the six-year itch. is the bedrock of conventional wisdom or just a made-up thing. second term presidents struggling in his second...
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jim demint. do you buy ceo of the conservative movement? >> i think it's very hard for jim demint to go in to -- i think it's many ways sort of like an awo n aol/time warner m. jim demint wouds of the senate and in to something that's in the think tank world. >> more of this. talking 2016 of this. more from the gaggle coming up. six-year itch. it's a bed rom of conventional wisdom. is it a med up thing? we'll let you know whether we think it's real or simply a consequence. >>> but first, our special trivia question. who's the first president and who was the most recent president to officially start a term on a sunday? the answer and more is coming up. i thought i'd start the video by showing you the apartment building where the fire was. when things like this happen, i think you find a new perspective on life. red cross put us in a hotel so we were able to stay together. we're strong and if we overcame that or if we can overcome that... we can overcome anything. [ sniffles ] ♪ >>> well, as we get closer to the next midterm elections you w
jim demint. do you buy ceo of the conservative movement? >> i think it's very hard for jim demint to go in to -- i think it's many ways sort of like an awo n aol/time warner m. jim demint wouds of the senate and in to something that's in the think tank world. >> more of this. talking 2016 of this. more from the gaggle coming up. six-year itch. it's a bed rom of conventional wisdom. is it a med up thing? we'll let you know whether we think it's real or simply a consequence....
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we have governor nicky haley, hark corubio, paul ryan, pence, jeb bush and jim demint. joining >> stewe ask all of you, first all hello. >> hello. >> happy new year. we ask all of you to pick. i threw out my dozen. i asked you to pick two you will keep an extra eye on. we continue do the 2016 conversation now, but we'll do it in a few minutes. >> of my dozen which two jumped out to you. >> i'm a little nerdy, so i picked michael bennett, the colorado senator, because he's the new head of the democratic senatorial campaign committee, so he's tasked with trying to again to keep a democratic senate majority. >> he wants to be senate majority leader some day. >> they asked him two years ago. he said no he said yes this time. >> you also put mike pence up there. why mike pence? >> he spent time in congress, now the governor of indiana a guy who we underrate in terms of his influence. we've seen in places like ohio, florida, wisconsin, how governors can have influence on the conversation. pence is a conservative who is a believer. >> all right. perry? you picked two governors
we have governor nicky haley, hark corubio, paul ryan, pence, jeb bush and jim demint. joining >> stewe ask all of you, first all hello. >> hello. >> happy new year. we ask all of you to pick. i threw out my dozen. i asked you to pick two you will keep an extra eye on. we continue do the 2016 conversation now, but we'll do it in a few minutes. >> of my dozen which two jumped out to you. >> i'm a little nerdy, so i picked michael bennett, the colorado senator,...
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demint, african-american congressman. jenny sanford is the name that jumps out on the short list. >> it would be a great pick. she's charismatic. very interesting pick. but tim scott has all the logic behind him. >> but nikki haley doesn't always go with the grain. she's not necessarily the most predictable person. that is the variable. >> her numbers are not very good. a poll was just released. the only solution, cobert wins in the polls. >> robert, where is this going? is she going to make the best pick that gets her re-elected? is she worried about being renominated more than re-elected? what is going on, do you think, with her politics? >> she's worried on both fronts. she ran as a tea party candidate in 2010, elected as a tea party star. she will elect a tea party congressman. >> i got to go. robert? >> read national review's coverage of the michigan right to work fight. lot of stories are up now. >> perry? >> my good friend's birthday is tomorrow. happy birthday to her. >> i have a piece in roll call where i interne
demint, african-american congressman. jenny sanford is the name that jumps out on the short list. >> it would be a great pick. she's charismatic. very interesting pick. but tim scott has all the logic behind him. >> but nikki haley doesn't always go with the grain. she's not necessarily the most predictable person. that is the variable. >> her numbers are not very good. a poll was just released. the only solution, cobert wins in the polls. >> robert, where is this going?...
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kicking off the hour is senator jim demint, one of the first speakers. big confab there. >>> president obama will announce ten states are now exempt from the bush era no child left behind act. it will give those states the ability to come up with their own plans to make -- >>> washington state lawmakers have cleared way for the state to legalize gay marriage. it will make washington the seventh state in the country expect to do sign the bill into law next week. >>> the pregnancy rate among teens dropped to just 7%. the birthrate peeked in 1990. >>> republicans every calling the president's new rules on contraception a war on religious liberty. some democrats are now switching sides, trying to forget the administration to revered on find a compromise, but the white house publicly isn't budging. >> we want to work with all these organizations to implement this policy in a way that's as sensitive to their concerns as possible. but let's be clear, we are committed -- the president is committed to ensuring that women have access to contraception without payin
kicking off the hour is senator jim demint, one of the first speakers. big confab there. >>> president obama will announce ten states are now exempt from the bush era no child left behind act. it will give those states the ability to come up with their own plans to make -- >>> washington state lawmakers have cleared way for the state to legalize gay marriage. it will make washington the seventh state in the country expect to do sign the bill into law next week. >>>...
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michele bachmann, jim demint. everybody should pay something. but of those 47% he is citing that jonathan just brought up, i ring 40% of them are romney voters? >> i would agree. >> minimum. >> the problem that you have is this gaffe -- gaffe, misstatement, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't just, to jonathan's point, he is right, doesn't reinforce what people like about romney or think they don't like about romney, it place perfectly into the barack obama messaging which is i'm a president for all of america, i'm a president for the middle class, he is a president for the rich. he is basically writing off 53% of the american public. i'm not gonna do that. i'm going to be a president for everyone. >> i want the vote of every single american period? period? >> of course. you don't have to agree with me on every issue. >> obama the first time. you get this sense with some of these guys that successfully win that first time, the president circumstance they ache to be liked by everybody. at least 65%. >> charlie crist syndrome, want 85% approv
michele bachmann, jim demint. everybody should pay something. but of those 47% he is citing that jonathan just brought up, i ring 40% of them are romney voters? >> i would agree. >> minimum. >> the problem that you have is this gaffe -- gaffe, misstatement, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't just, to jonathan's point, he is right, doesn't reinforce what people like about romney or think they don't like about romney, it place perfectly into the barack obama messaging...
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senator jim demint said speaker boehner's $800 billion tax hike will destroy american jobs. yes, he said speaker boehner. one party proposes increase in an effort to counter them. the other party's leadership proposes, wait for it, $800 billion in tax increases and then former alaska governor sarah palin blasting boehner's decision to remove some conservatives from plum house committee assignments writing, come on now, gop. don't go wobbly on us. congressman jim jordan, an influential group of conservatives criticized the boehner plan. >> the problem i have with the republican proposal, frankly, is that it does raise taxes. the thing we need is economic growth. you're not going to grow the economy, put in place a framework conducive to job creation if you're raising ta s taxes. >> oklahoma senator tom coburn said conservative criticism might not be all that bad. >> i think that helps boehner. >> he's drawn a line in the sand for the fiscal conservatives and it communicates to both the white house and boehner. here is how far you can go. >> coburn also acknowledged house repu
senator jim demint said speaker boehner's $800 billion tax hike will destroy american jobs. yes, he said speaker boehner. one party proposes increase in an effort to counter them. the other party's leadership proposes, wait for it, $800 billion in tax increases and then former alaska governor sarah palin blasting boehner's decision to remove some conservatives from plum house committee assignments writing, come on now, gop. don't go wobbly on us. congressman jim jordan, an influential group of...
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. >> so ron paul, jim demint, pat toomey -- >> not paul ryan. >> mike pence. >> but not paul ryan. >>> and academy award nominations are out. >> what did you learn? >> i was just reminded of where mika gets her brilliant from -- her father. >> mika, anything? >> my dad is amazing. no, take it away. >> it's early. >> what time is it? >> time for "the daily rundown" with check todd. >>> thank you, guys. that musicals fires me up the showdown in the sunshine state. gingrich didn't take the bait. he came out on top. we'll break it down in minutes. >>> plus mitt's millions under pressure. romney releases his tax returns today, showing about $42 million in income over the last two years. not bad for a guy whose job has been simply preparing for a run for president. >>> the state of union is tonight. the president promises to lay out his vision for strengthening the economy and middle class. a giant platform for what's basically the kickoff to the reelection campaign. it's tuesday, super tuesday. january 24th, 2012. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. what a packed day from the firs
. >> so ron paul, jim demint, pat toomey -- >> not paul ryan. >> mike pence. >> but not paul ryan. >>> and academy award nominations are out. >> what did you learn? >> i was just reminded of where mika gets her brilliant from -- her father. >> mika, anything? >> my dad is amazing. no, take it away. >> it's early. >> what time is it? >> time for "the daily rundown" with check todd. >>> thank you, guys....
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and jim demint got behind the candidate in nebraska who finished third and it seems a lot of senators are public lly glo gloading about this. >> you know, a lot of them were very unhappy with the role he played. he might have caused hi party a chance -- played a role in causing the party to win back the senate. >> we haven't seen this where a single senator try os to be an alternative version of the party committee. leadership doesn't like that. is that healthy for the party? >> yes and no. it brings people to the party, gets this ideological debate going. you saw delaware, nevada. >> there's a time it doesn't help. >> it's a mix. it's a very outside time in american politics. >> basically senators feel like they have a chance holding a senate they didn't thing they had a chance at. >> absolutely. it also played into the narrative that the democrats could play a better part in the argument. it's not democrats. it's republicans. you have even senate republicans don't agree with house republicans. that's the problem. >> harry reid is the problem. >> i would say republicans who don't agr
and jim demint got behind the candidate in nebraska who finished third and it seems a lot of senators are public lly glo gloading about this. >> you know, a lot of them were very unhappy with the role he played. he might have caused hi party a chance -- played a role in causing the party to win back the senate. >> we haven't seen this where a single senator try os to be an alternative version of the party committee. leadership doesn't like that. is that healthy for the party?...
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even jim demint who is the great champion of the tea party. there i spent time with lindsey graham. he has not come out for anyone specifically. although he was speaking quite encouragingly about mitt romy and what he could do for the economy and running against obama. the one who has come out and endorsed someone is nicky haley, the new governor of south carolina. she has her own difficulties. he had a robust state the state speech yesterday. she is working very hard in getting more jobs into south carolina. this is so typical of south carolina, as you know. he came to south carolina and it was open warfare on john mccain for the following week. at that point, george bush had the support of the south carolina governor. and they went to the mattresses over the state. what is so interesting to me having spent time down there is the social conservative issues have not resonated in the same way. i just like to roll a part of an interview i did with ernie siegers, county administrator in the middle part of the state. it is the buckle of the bible belt. here's what he had to say about th
even jim demint who is the great champion of the tea party. there i spent time with lindsey graham. he has not come out for anyone specifically. although he was speaking quite encouragingly about mitt romy and what he could do for the economy and running against obama. the one who has come out and endorsed someone is nicky haley, the new governor of south carolina. she has her own difficulties. he had a robust state the state speech yesterday. she is working very hard in getting more jobs into...
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>> but do they get punished for not having the guts to tell jim demint enough? you know what, your guys are doing this. or do they have to do it now? >> i think there will be -- we were talking about this off-air. i do think there is a reckoning within the republican party now to say, do you want to win or do you want to kind of preserve the righteousness of your principles among a smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller group of people. that's what the election showed. >> i bring this up. some senate republicans think i was being unfair this morning to mcconnell and coryn. the way washington worked 20 years ago, there would have been a challenge. the point you brought up, they were simply reflecting. >> they said what happened in 2010 there was no appetite in intervening in these primaries. mcconnell is lmd -- he made peace with rand paul early on. smart move on his part. who is going to challenge mitch mcconnell. >> there is no obvious -- there was a bill frisk sitting back there when trent lott wanted to get rid of him. they were upset and people, don't f
>> but do they get punished for not having the guts to tell jim demint enough? you know what, your guys are doing this. or do they have to do it now? >> i think there will be -- we were talking about this off-air. i do think there is a reckoning within the republican party now to say, do you want to win or do you want to kind of preserve the righteousness of your principles among a smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller group of people. that's what the election showed. >>...
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demint, a tea party face for many social conservatives in that region. one endorsement that still really matters. today like noah's ark mitt romney leaves here with nikki haley and heads up to new hampshire, and that's where we're going as well. chuck, back to you. >> thank you, peter. tome team obama's take on the unemployment numbers and mitt romney skipped ahead to campaign in south carolina while his challengers gang up on him here in new hampshire. could romney win the granite state but still lose the expectations game? new hampshire snorkely ayotte joins -- snorkely ayotte joins me next. we'll hear more from the president about these jobs numbers today because i think he has something he wants to remind people about on that one. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar. the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to be. ♪ because your moment is now. let
demint, a tea party face for many social conservatives in that region. one endorsement that still really matters. today like noah's ark mitt romney leaves here with nikki haley and heads up to new hampshire, and that's where we're going as well. chuck, back to you. >> thank you, peter. tome team obama's take on the unemployment numbers and mitt romney skipped ahead to campaign in south carolina while his challengers gang up on him here in new hampshire. could romney win the granite state...
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he's the backing of club for growth and senator jim demint's conservative fund. but the person to watch right now is deb fisher. a rancher and state senator. she's never held statewide office and suddenly she's got momentum. fisher getting attention for this ad featuring two angus bulls named after her competition. >> tired of the same old politician bull? deb fisher is a sand hills rancher, sharp as barbed wire, tougher than a cedar fence post. deb fischer puts nebraskans first. >> classic three-way contest vibe going on. candidate a attacks candidate b and candidate c rises? she's gotten the mama grizzly stamp of approval, by the way. >> hello, beautiful nebraska. this is governor sarah palin. in the u.s. senator race, i support deb fischer. >> palin who fischer has never met, also endorsed her in a statement along with her husband todd. we admire your conservative principles and know you will got to washington to amass great with or power. a tv ad paid for by the founder of ameritrade, an omaha businessman whose family owns the chicago cubs and whose son lost
he's the backing of club for growth and senator jim demint's conservative fund. but the person to watch right now is deb fisher. a rancher and state senator. she's never held statewide office and suddenly she's got momentum. fisher getting attention for this ad featuring two angus bulls named after her competition. >> tired of the same old politician bull? deb fisher is a sand hills rancher, sharp as barbed wire, tougher than a cedar fence post. deb fischer puts nebraskans first. >>...
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one of those guys is jim demint. >> yeah. >> listen to what he said to our libby least when she caught up with him. didn't quite endorse mitt romney but said this, they could drag it out to the con vention if they want but i think if some of them look at where they are, the best thing they do do is maybe look at kind of throwing their support behind the one who might be our nominee h it is beginning to look like romney. >> yeah, i think there is -- if there's a change this week beyond the etch a sketch moment, which was difficult, the beyond the fact that jeb bush endorsed romney but rather meekly, it is that this idea that the best santorum can do is block romney to the nomination, i think has a chilling effect on the race in the way that it says to republicans, look, is this really what you want to do? all he can really do is sort of prevent him from getting to the -- >> demint is a perfect guy to find that out, the rorschach test. you would expect if demint wanted that then he wouldn't have said that. >> that's right. he didn't endorse in south carolina because there's too much down
one of those guys is jim demint. >> yeah. >> listen to what he said to our libby least when she caught up with him. didn't quite endorse mitt romney but said this, they could drag it out to the con vention if they want but i think if some of them look at where they are, the best thing they do do is maybe look at kind of throwing their support behind the one who might be our nominee h it is beginning to look like romney. >> yeah, i think there is -- if there's a change this...
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we had jim demint sidelines and nikki haley put her out there for romney. he had nobody big. that makes you wonder. so these endorsements really are kind of meaningless? >> there's been a lot of criticisms by those who think romney will always have a hard time in south carolina and raised expectations -- and was -- look, whether he did that or not. when he won iowa and looked like he won iowa, won new hampshire, can't slow that train down and say who knows how we're going to do -- >> remember the week before iowa, he spent half of his time in iowa and half of the time in new hampshire. the expectation was he would do the same thing with the pairing of south carolina and florida. >> right. >> when he didn't do that, he sent the signal i'm in to win. and. >> he put the chips on table and now he has to try to win the bet. it's not clear he's going to do that. romney has fundamental problems that could make this a near death experience or make i am much stronger. connection with voters who are hurting and angry when the republican party is going to be fundamentally important. if
we had jim demint sidelines and nikki haley put her out there for romney. he had nobody big. that makes you wonder. so these endorsements really are kind of meaningless? >> there's been a lot of criticisms by those who think romney will always have a hard time in south carolina and raised expectations -- and was -- look, whether he did that or not. when he won iowa and looked like he won iowa, won new hampshire, can't slow that train down and say who knows how we're going to do --...